14. Samsung’s Financial Setback: Samsung slashed its quarterly profit estimate by a third on Wednesday, soaking up a $2.3 billion hit from ditching its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in what could be one of the costliest product safety failures in tech history, according to Reuters.

13. Fall of a Unicorn: Ever wonder how a unicorn — a $1 billion startup — potentially falls from grace or collapses? This look at Fab.com provides some clues. The key line in the lengthy piece… “entrepreneurs often assume that as long as they can keep raising money, they can fix their business models down the line.”

12. PC Shipments Fall: Worldwide PC shipments fell 3.9 percent in Q3, according to IDC — however the slide was narrower than IDCs original expectation. The company had forecast a 7.1 percent decline. PC shipments have now declined for eight consecutive quarters — the longest such decline in the history of the PC, Gartner said. Lenovo commands about 21.2 percent of the market, followed by HP at 19.7 percent, IDC said.

David Hauser

11. IoT Funding: PlumChoice Inc., a provider of premium technical services to cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) service providers, IoT manufacturers, cloud solution providers and distributors, has raised more funding to further accelerate company growth. Total funding figures were not disclosed. Among the names to know at PlumChoice: David Hauser, GM of cloud and managed services.

CloudJumper, focused on Workspace as a Service (WaaS), has launched the CloudJumper Channel Partner Program for managed service providers (MSPs), independent software vendors (ISVs), agents, and other IT service providers. The move comes as rival Itopia raised $3.5 million to drive its channel-centric WaaS growth.

Pulse Secure, which specializes in secure access solutions, has increased its registered partner count to 2,900 companies in over 100 countries. The company spun off from Juniper Networks in 2014.

Joe Tucci

7. Joe Tucci’s Next Gig: Former EMC CEO Joe Tucci has joined Bridge Growth Partners as chairman of the firm. Tucci has served on the private equity firm’s Investment Committee and Advisory Board since Bridge Growth Partners was established in late 2013.

6. AWS Migrations:Logicworks has launched a Cloud Migration Service – a three-part consultation that helps new and existing customers accelerate success with Amazon Web Services, the company claims. Logicworks is one of the top MSPs supporting AWS customer workloads.

2. StorageCraft Talent:StorageCraft has hired Jawaad Tariq is its new vice president of engineering. Tariq, a 17-year industry veteran, Tariq, joined StorageCraft from Fusion-io/Sandisk. StorageCraft, acquired by a private equity firm in January 2016, has built a new executive and channel team in recent months.

Michael Dell

1. Meet at Dell EMC World?: ChannelE2E is set to attend Dell EMC World 2016 next week in Austin, Texas. If you’re attending and you’d like to potentially meet please email me (Joe@AfterNines.com).